CONVICTION & SENTENCING OF OFFENDERS IN NEW ZEALAND:
1989 TO 1998

Philip Spier

First published in December 1999 by the
Ministry of Justice, Po Box 180, Wellington
Ph (04) 494-9700, Fax (04) 494-9701
© Crown Copyright
ISSN 1172-0638

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Tables

Figures

Executive Summary

Introduction

2. Prosecutions and convictions for all offences except traffic offences

3. Sentencing for all offences except traffic offences

4. Convictions and sentencing for traffic offences

5. Court statistics on young offenders

6. The use of custodial and community-based sentences for all offences

7. The use of reparation as a sentence

8. Trends in offending while on bail and in the use of bail

9. Summary of main findings

References

Appendix 1: Some recent criminal justice research publications of the Ministry of Justice and the former Department of Justice
Appendix 2: Differences between the 1994 figures in Chapter 8 and those in Lash (1998b)
Appendix 3: Ethnicity, age and gender of offenders convicted of non-traffic offences in 1998
Appendix 4: Ethnicity, age and gender of offenders receiving each type of  sentence for non-traffic offences in 1998
Appendix 5: Age and gender of offenders receiving each type of sentence for traffic offences in 1998

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